How is your inflation looking? It it at least decreasing?
Nope. Approaching 50% . The more rich provinces I own, the better it will be once true PAX is achieved, thus I will expand colonially very quickly once this war is over, over Australia and Southern Brazil which got the province with the highest base tax as Sao Vicente (which will be renamed to Sanctus Paulus. Northern BRBR was already colonized by the Byzantine Greeks and, ridiculously, by Georgians). With two COTs hopefully I'll have enough income to help, but I'll have to make Jerusalem go bankrupt for sure now.
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Conquirite India!
Madre Terra
Unfortunately someone else seized control over the center of trade in Surat, as the vultures circled over the defeated and crushed Delhi. Now Jerusalem had to wait. Perhaps they wouldn't try to take over Surat themselves.
The Timurids are crushed and defeated. Let the other heathens finish the job themselves.
The partitions of their puny Khanate began, and with those heathens out of the war, Jerusalem was now ready to crush them in a devastating way, occupying all their lands.
In 1599, the crusaders marched towards the very capital of the Timurid Khanate, certain that their victory was at hand.
DEUS VULT!
Even better, apparently the conflict at Delhi led to the fortunate end of the occupation of Surat, and this was an opportunity that couldn't be missed. Classis Hierusalem immediately sets sails to meet up with one of the armies of the empire so they can begin the siege of that valuable city.
The traitors will have no mercy. A plan of mass settlement to REMOVE KEBAB for once and all required for the Crusader culture to spread through the New World, but once possible, then the towelheads will be eradicated from the glorious Imperium.
About time, not that this would stop the HERESY!
The Emperor died of disease in the jungles of Africa, while leading his men to a campaign of bringing peace to their African territories, which of course meant slaughtering lots of niggers. Some suggested that it was a black(literally lol) magic voodoo ritual that killed the Emprah. They were all blammed for obvious HERESY! Unfortunately Godfrey was too young for assuming the throne, and thus, just what they needed right now: a Regency!
TIMUR DELENDA EST!
Being enemy of our enemies, Transoxiana agreed to give military access to Jerusalem so they could finish the job.
One of the initiates of Ordo Conquirator thus led the men towards the uncharted lands, as they sought a land route towards India, to crush not only what is left of the Timurid "empire" through those unknown expanses, but also Delhi.
On world news, things are bad for Georgia, Russian patriots overwhelming them. Things are equally bad for the once proud Lithuanian Hitmen Empire as Silesia and Poland, allied with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, fight for freeing their fellow Poles from the Hitmen oppression.
9th of May of 1600, a day which will live in infamy. The regent boldly proclaimed himself the new Emperor, ousting the von Hohenzollern dynasty from Jerusalem and restoring to Jerusalem the dynasty that originally ruled the first Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem before it fell to the forces of Saladin. From dukes of Cyprus to again kings... not only kings, emperors of the Holy Land. The heir, lacking support due to signs of inborn incompetence, could do nothing as his few supporters fled with him to Wurtemberg, the remaining seat of power of the von Hohenzollerns. Long live Baldwin VII de Lusignan!
Baldwin VII de Lusignan proves to be a far more capable Emperor than the heir he usurped, and his excellent diplomatic and military skills will certainly help a lot with the future of the Imperium, although his legitimacy is very questionable. With his coup supported by the merchants and burghers, he has drastically curbed the powers of the aristocracy while further centralizing the power of the Empire, two measures that shall greatly help the Empire in the long term, now that they are about to seize control of two centers of trade and maintained for a long time monopoly over Alexandria as well.
The new Emperor didn't change the plans about the war. It had to go to the end, and after years of occupation, some of the Timurid provinces began to surrender to the enlightened dominion of the Imperium, which is even better, for it will allow for the destruction of the Timurids to go even further than originally planned.
Some of the heathens of Delhi desperatedly tried to retake Surat. The crusaders were significantly outnumbered, but in the end their superior training and weaponry prevailed.
DEUS VULT!
Shortly after crushing the desperate Delhian attempt of retaking Surat, the crusaders took control of the city and of its highly valuable center of trade. Yet, they had to completely crush Delhi to convince them to surrender such highly valuable province.
For that goal, again because they are enemies of Jerusalem enemies, Sind agreed to provide military access for Jerusalem so they could reach Delhi through land and conquer India, repeating the same steps of Alexander the Great over a thousand years ago.
Hamadan, another of the most valuable heathen provinces, equally fell.
The Papal States boast themselves as the first Europeans to discover Japan. Of course, they are lying. The first Europeans to discover Japan were Jerusalem, even if they are not per se European, only CULTURALLY European.
In February 1602, the entire Timurid territory was occupied by the Imperium, as now they marched towards Delhi itself.
DEUS VULT!
By March, the heir of the just established de Lusignan dynasty was revealed, and like a certain von Hohenzollern, shortly after such heir, Baldwin was also took a wound to the balls that rendered him sterile.
Here comes Maria de Lusignan, the first Empress of Jerusalem. Oh great, a woman ruling an Imperium.
Of course the last time a woman ruled Jerusalem, she turned it from a little Crusader Kingdom to a near-empire and they won wars against far worse odds than the current ones, giving the foundations of the mighty Imperium of now. And Maria is a very competent and smart kid, who might easily become one of the greatest rulers of the Imperium.
By the end of April of 1602, most of the armies of Jerusalem were marching into India, as they began to head north, intent on conquering the city of Delhi itself.
Their inferior forces stood no chance, the crusade carried on.
Their defeat was total, their nation plagued by rebels while their doom was coming. Those without the Lord can only end one way.
The only other province of the Timurids Jerusalem wished to conquer, Ajam, has finally chosen to join the Imperium. Part of the reason for this was also the fact Ajam is the last stronghold of the ancient Zoroastrian religion in Persia, and compared to the Timurids, the Imperium was more tolerant.
With the naval powers among heathens out of the war, exploration resumed. A large if desertic continent was discovered, which was named Australia. Suitable lands for colonization were yet to be found, but that would soon change.
The assault of Delhi was a failure, their heavily fortified position and some bad luck leading to the death of thousands of crusaders. Nevertheless, the siege was not yet lost, and despite taking heavy casualties, they continued it while the heathen Delhi was falling apart everywhere, a deserving fate for those who defy the Holy Land.
With the fall of Delhi, they finally would be willing to cede the valuable center of trade of Surat.
And now Jerusalem has grown richer and mightier, securing more of India for themselves, their conquests mirroring the very conquests of Alexander the Great before, their Empire stretching all over Asia, and their civilizaiton the first to secure the spice trade in the Indies, to the envy of Europe.
To finish the crushing of the Timurids, they were forced to renounce all their claims over the Imperium and to also release the worthless and pathetic shithole of Baluchistan as an independent land. They now have been reduced to less than nothing, taught a lesson on how nobody messes with Jerusalem and wins. As for Baluchistan, it is a poor shithole full of sandniggers that isn't worth shit, so why bother taking it rather than releasing it? And thus, once again peace, with every enemy of the Imperium crushed without mercy and defeated.
DEUS VULT!